Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, won the World Health Summit Startup award, 2018 for his invention, Manovue – the world’s first intelligent personal assisting system for the visually impaired.

He was awarded at an annual event of the health summit in Berlin.

Manovue eliminates the need for Braille language to decipher a printed text and instead combines vision intelligence to help the visually impaired people read.

Manovue was also awarded the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2015 and Yahoo Accenture Innovation Jockeys season 4.

Roopam is also listed in the UNESCO Youth forum and Innovators under 35.

He is known for his socially viable innovations that combine artificial intelligence.

An engineering alumnus of Manav Rachna, Roopam was conferred with the National Youth Award by the President of India in January this year.

This will be the fifth Annual Summit meeting between Mr. Modi and Mr. Abe and their 12th meeting overall.

Apart from attending the summit, Mr. Modi will visit the Robotics and Automation firm FANUC in Yamanashi and meet business leaders.

He will be showcasing India as an attractive investment destination to the Japanese investors and address a “Make-in-India” event in Tokyo.

9.Virtusa partners with BIAN to develop API exchange

Nasdaq listed Virtusa, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT outsourcing services announced its collaboration with the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) to launch API Exchange.

The exchange currently features over 65 standardized API definitions that allow banks to reduce the complexity of building and delivering open banking capabilities by providing clear guidance on how to implement innovative and intuitive digital services across both back-end and customer-facing functions.

The BIAN API Exchange was built on Virtusa’s Open Innovation Platform and features gamification to boost the right community behaviors.

Further, the API Exchange will allow banks to modernize their critical legacy infrastructure and adopt standardized frameworks to facilitate more open and easy collaboration with FinTechs and RegTechs.

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) inaugurated 10th Nuclear Energy Conclave in New Delhi.

He said that the Cabinet has given its approval for construction of 10 units of India’s indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR).

He also informed the audience about the “Hall of Nuclear Power”- India’s first permanent exhibition on nuclear power has been built in the national capital.

He announced that the Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KAPS) has set a new world record among pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) with one of its units operating uninterrupted for 895 days

12.President of India inaugurates International Arya Mahasammelan-2018 in Delhi

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the International Arya Mahasammelan – 2018 in Delhi.

The President noted that around 10,000 units of Arya Samaj are engaged in welfare activities across the world.

The President said that we will be celebrating a 200th birth anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 2024. We will also celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Arya Samaj in 2025.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati had worked for the eradication of discrimination in society on the basis of caste, creed, and sect and motivated everyone to become Arya – that is – the best. It is our duty to take the work of Swami Dayanand Saraswati further.

With an aim to build a research ecosystem in educational institutions, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar launched the web portal of ‘IMPRESS’ scheme.

IMPRESS stands for – Impactful Policy Research in Social Sciences.

The aim of the scheme is to identify and fund research proposals in social sciences with maximum impact on the governance and society.

The scheme will be implemented at a total cost of Rs. 414 crore by March 2021.

Under IMPRESS, 1,500 research projectswill be awarded for two years to support social science research in higher educational institutions.

The Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR) will be the projectimplementing agency.

14.World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Observed today

The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, observed by the United Nations onOctober 27,recognizes the need to preserve audio-visual links to the past.

The General Conference of UNESCO approved the commemoration of a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in 2005 as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need to preserve and safeguard important audiovisual material for future generations.

Audiovisual documents, such as films, radio and television programmes, are our common heritage and contain the primary records of the history of the 20th and 21st centuries.

15.Sourav Kothari wins World Billiards C’ship

India’s Sourav Kothari defeated Peter Gilchrist of Singapore by 1134-944 to clinch the 2018 World Billiards Championship title at Leeds in UK.

The former national and Asian Billiards champion Kothari was pipped at the post for the coveted World Billiards crown on two occasions in the last two years, including a loss to Gilchrist in 2016 final in Bengaluru.

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